New Amazon Kindle: Hey, those audio rights are ours!

by Walter Olson on February 11, 2009

An experimental feature on the popular electronic book will allow a little voice to auto-read the text of the book for you, but the Author’s Guild says that infringes on its members’ rights to the audio adaptations of their works. [WSJ, Slashdot]

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1 Liz 02.12.09 at 11:42 am

Oh goodie!! The battle of the Author’s Guild lawyers verses ADA lawyers!

2 Ron Miller 02.13.09 at 12:50 pm

Everyone needs to stop reading to their kids at night, too.

3 coffee 02.25.09 at 12:13 am

the Kindle’s main selling point for me is it’s text-to-specch feature

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